CStrauss opened this issue on Apr 07, 2011 ยท 34 posts
bagginsbill posted Thu, 07 April 2011 at 1:55 PM
Basicwiz's setup is a perfect mirror. This means it has NO light of its own - it only shows the light of things around it - the world.
Your world is empty.
Therefore the world assumes the color WHITE because you set that color in the Reflect "Background" color - that is what color the world is when there is nothing in the world.
It does not set the blade color - Basicwiz wrote in the screen shot that it does. It doesn't. It defines what color the missing parts of the world are.
Now - a perfect mirror is invisible and boring if the world around it is empty. This is where you want to use either:
A Sphere_Map node connected to an image
My Environment Sphere with a 360 degree image in it.
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